PH3120 Homework Assignment #8

PH3120 Homework Assignment #8

DIRECTIONS: Please answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper. Include your name and CIN number on your homework assignment. Students are welcome to work in groups to complete homework assignments. However, each student must submit his/her own answers to receive credit. SHOW ALL OF YOUR WORK!

All the following questions are in relation to the following journal article which is available on Canvas Week 11

1. What makes this a cross sectional study?

2. How did the researchers obtain their study sample?

3. See Table 1, describe the study population?

4. How many of the study subjects were tested for covid-19?

5. The researchers administered question about knowledge, practice and attitudes about covid-19. What is the range of possible scores for Knowledge? Practice? Attitudes?

6. In table 5, use he proportions and p-values to answer the following questions.

a. Is there a statistically significant difference in the proportion of undergraduates that believe “infection with the virus is associated with stigma” compared to the postgraduates?

b. Do medical students and allied health students mostly agree that “the current measures taken by the UAE government are effective in stopping the spread of the infection?

c. State the null hypothesis associated with the p-value calculated for 6b.

7. What is figure 2B telling you?

8. What are the three limitation of the study mentioned by the authors?

 

 

RESEARCH ARTICLE

COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practices

of United Arab Emirates medical and health

sciences students: A cross sectional study

Noura Baniyas 1 , Mohamud Sheek-HusseinID

2*, Nouf Al Kaabi1, Maitha Al Shamsi1, Maitha Al Neyadi

1 , Rauda Al Khoori

1 , Suad AjabID

2 , Muhammad Abid

2 , Michal Grivna

2 ,

Fikri M. Abu-Zidan 3

1 United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 2 Institute of Public Health, United Arab

Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 3 Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health

Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

* [email protected]

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest viral pandemic of the 21st century. We aimed to

study COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) among medical and health sci-ences students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We performed a cross-sectional studybetween 2 June and 19 August 2020. The survey was distributed online using Survey Mon-key. It was conducted in English and comprised two parts: socio-demographic characteris-tics, and KAP towards COVID-19. 712 responses to the questionnaire were collected. 90%of respondents (n = 695) were undergraduate students, while 10% (n = 81) were postgradu-ates. The majority (87%, n = 647) stated that they obtained COVID-19 information from mul-tiple reliable sources. They were highly knowledgeable about the COVID-19 pandemic, but 76% (n = 539) did not recognize its routes of transmission. Medical students were signifi-cantly more knowledgeable compared with allied health students (P<0.0001, Mann Whitney U test) but there was no difference in knowledge between undergraduate and postgraduate students (P = 0.14, Mann Whitney U test). Medical students thought that more could be done to mitigate the COVID-19 situation compared with the allied health students (66.2% compared with 51.6%, p = 0.002 Fisher’s Exact test). 63% (n = 431) were worried about get-ting COVID-19 infection, while 92% (n = 633)) were worried that a family member could be infected with the virus. 97% (n = 655) took precautions when accepting home deliveries, 94% (n = 637) had been washing their hands more frequently, and 95% (n = 643) had been wearing face masks. In conclusion, medical and health sciences students in the UAE showed high levels of knowledge and good attitudes and practices towards the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, they were worried about themselves or their family members becoming infected. Medical students had more knowledge about COVID-19 pandemic which was reflected in their opinion that more can be done to mitigate its effects.